Driving Power Increased By Thin Handle
Lew Fonseca reflects on the shift to thinner handled bats in baseball, noting the hal chase model and players like Babe Ruth and Rogers Hornsby popularized the design. He cites balance, driving power, and ash quality as key factors while advising shorter bats for youth and revealing industry production scales. Baseball remains a vast business.
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Harry Grayson
NEA Service
Chicago
Lew Fonseca
Hal Chase
Prince Hal
Feld
Babe Ruth
Rogers Hornsby
Fonseca
Louisville
Mel Ott
Mickey Cochrane
Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Willie Keeler
Broad Basketball Scores Across Teams and Results
Basketball scores list numerous colleges and schools including John Marshall Catholic University Washington and Lee William and Mary Elon Randolph Macon Duke and others with mixed outcomes. The piece notes weather delays intercollegiate games at Mt St Marys and Loyola Baltimore and previews upcoming local high school trades and league play.
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John Marshall
Catholic University
Wash. and Lee
Wm. and Mary
Elon
Randolph Macon
Duke
Richmond
Pennsylvania
Yale
North Carolina
Wake Forest
Mt St. Marys
Maryland
Chamions
June Plusius
Emmitsburg
Loyola College
Baltimore
Golfers shape gear for 14 club rule in force
Under the 14 club rule, players assess course, weather, and lane conditions to choose sticks. Top players already plan sets with Nos 2 through 4 woods, irons 2 through 9, and a putter, while some drop the sand blaster or brassie and vary three or four woods.
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NEA
U.S. A
Sam Parks Jr Favors Fewer Clubs Amid 1935 Open Talk
National Open champion Sam Parks Jr argues for discarding the No. 3 iron and relying on drivers, woods, and a set of irons with putter and blaster. He notes top players anticipate four woods and eight irons without No. 1, while others favor niblicks and varied shots. Veterans may initially struggle but youngsters like Snead already adapt.
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Sam Parks, Jr
Bobby Cruickshank
Tommy Armour
Francis Culmet
Chick Evans
Macdonald Smith
Gene Sarazen
Johnny Farrel
Wille Macfarlane
Byron Nelson
Jag McSpaden
Mis Ghetti
Dick Metz
Jimmy Hines
Sam Snead
K. of P. Bowling League Yesterday's Results
Blue Lantern league update lists C. E. B. Shipley as high scorer with 3 games, while Ballenger faces Winpigler in a key trans match tonight.
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Blue Lantern
C. E. B. Shipley
Ballenger
Winpigler
Trans
Ww. L. Pet. E. B. Shipley
Cramer
Eri Ae
Baker's Bowling League Results and Tonight's Matchups
DeMolay Al. 2 Opera House 1 and Prosperity Cleaners 3 Farers 0 highlighted yesterday in Baker's Bowling League. Tonight Bill's Sandwich faces Storm and Shipley. In Santa Maria California on January 13 AP reports 20 men formed a garden club for men to discuss dahlias gladioluses and other flowers. The piece notes that the earliest birds from 150 million years ago could not fly.
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Opera House
Prosperity Cleaners
Farers
Garden Club
Santa Maria
Calif
Jan
People's Drug Quint Wins Game By 36-1
The Maryland State School for the Deaf basketball B team lost to the People’s Drug Stores quint in the Maryland State School gym on Tuesday evening by a lopsided score. Murray and Shick led the visitors with sharp inside and outside scoring while Coleman stood out for the hosts. Silent Cadets played without Spath and Pothstein.
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Parkway
Quint
Grammar School of St. John's
R. Kennedy
Johnnies
W. Kennedy
W. Staley
Bartgis
Ford
Shipley
Beck’s Hatchery
Ramsburg
Maryland
Lergett
Lowman
DeMolay Quint
van Poole
Watkin
Rothstein
Spath
Bill’s
Blue Lantern
Maryland School
G G. Fyi
Cc. S
Coleman
Brian C. F
E. Nogle
I Myers
Fang H. Reid
Schwartz
M. Morgan
Harley
People's Drug Store
Hudson
D. Morgan Spath
H. Wolfe
Fe Murrey
C. Morgan
Snyder
Ses Et Laren
Geisbert
Singer
Shickles
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I Hull
G Clark
Stall
Houck
Kieffer Mackley
Price
Maliers—Martz
Brish
Timer
Lawrence
Kieffer
Maryland State School For the Deaf
Maryland State School
Maryland State Schol Casketeers
Wes
Murray
Shick
Ser Lylees
Spath and
Pothstein
Armstrong Knocks Out Venturi In Sixth Round
New York January 12 Henry Armstrong featherweight champion knocked out Enrico Venturi in the sixth round of their ten round bout before 12 000 fans at Madison Square Garden Armstrong weighed 134 1 6 Venturi fell to the canvas after a left to the body and refereed the no foul ruling left Armstrong with his 27th knockout in his last 28 fights a year of sensational wins continued with February together red notes
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New York
Henry Armstrong
Enrico Venturi
Madison Square Garden
Armstrong
Venturi
Abtas Venturi
New York State Athletic Commission
Arthur Donovan
Los Angeles
Frederick A C Opens With Win Over Co A
The Frederick Athletic Club basketball team opened its season by defeating Company Aquint at the State Armory on Tuesday night 42 to 32. The Militiamen led all game, 21 to 12 at halftime. Stockman and Stewart led Co A in scoring, while H Dutrow Nicklas and Sherald starred for Frederick A C.
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Frederick Athletic Club
Company
Aquint
State Armory
Dorsey Marketeers
Hagerstown
Pittsburgh Pirates
Hagerstown Armory
Armory
Marketeers
Charlie Ke?sler
Georgetown Defeats Maryland 57 to 39 in Tight Duel
Georgetown University beat Maryland University 57 to 39 in Washington. Maryland led early but faded, trailing 31 to 17 at halftime as Georgetown pulled away in the second half.
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Maryland
Washington
Georgetown University
Maryland University
Georgetown
Rheingold Brewers face Takoma Park Firemen Sunday clash
The Rheingold Brewers from Frederick county meet Takoma Park Firemen in Takoma Park on Sunday after a midweek one point loss to Western Maryland freshmen. The Firemen boast Bozie Berger Buscher brothers and ex Maryland star Ed Hargaden among others.
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Rheingold Brewers
Takoma Park
Brewers
Frederick
Bozie Berger
Buscher Brothers
Maryland
Ed Hargaden
Georgetown
Hal Niesel
George Washington
Armory
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Storm & Shipley
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Baker’s Bowling League
Bill's Sandwich
People’s Drug Quint
Frederick A. C
Co. A
Frederick Underwriters, Inc
Patrick Street
Frederick, Md
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Gulliver
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